Arctic and Alpine Biodiversity: Patterns, Causes and Ecosystem Consequences

I: Patterns and Causes of Diversity.- 1 Patterns and Causes of Arctic Plant Community Diversity.- 2 Causes of Arctic Plant Diversity: Origin and Evolution.- 3 Patterns and Causes of Genetic Diversity in Arctic Plants.- 4 Alpine Plant Diversity: A Global Survey and Functional Interpretations.- 5 Origin and Evolution of the Mountain Flora in Middle Asia and Neighbouring Mountain Regions.- 6 Diversity of the Arctic Terrestrial Fauna.- 7 Animal Diversity at High Altitudes in the Austrian Central Alps.- II: Past, Present, and Future Changes in Diversity.- 8 Arctic Tundra Biodiversity: A Temporal Perspective from Late Quaternary Pollen Records.- 9 Effects of Mammals on Ecosystem Change at the Pleistocene-Holocene Boundary.- 10 Palaeorecords of Plant Biodiversity in the Alps.- 11 Implications for Changes in Arctic Plant Biodiversity from Environmental Manipulation Experiments.- 12 Patterns and Current Changes in Alpine Plant Diversity.- 13 Anthropogenic Impacts on Biodiversity in the Arctic.- III: Ecosystem Consequences of Diversity.- 14 Plant Functional Diversity and Resource Control of Primary Production in Alaskan Arctic Tundras.- 15 Direct and Indirect Effects of Plant Species on Biogeochemical Processes in Arctic Ecosystems.- 16 Causes and Consequences of Plant Functional Diversity in Arctic Ecosystems.- 17 Ecosystem Consequences of Microbial Diversity and Community Structure.- 18 Diversity of Biomass and Nitrogen Distribution Among Plant Species in Arctic and Alpine Tundra Ecosystems.- 19 The Plant-Vertebrate Herbivore Interface in Arctic Ecosystems.- 20 Insect Diversity, Life History, and Trophic Dynamics in Arctic Streams, with Particular Emphasis on Black Flies (Diptera: Simuliidae).- 21 Land-Water Interactions: The Influence of Terrestrial Diversity on Aquatic Ecosystems.- IV: A Synthesis.- 22 Patterns, Causes, Changes, and Consequences of Biodiversity in Arctic and Alpine Ecosystems.

Christian Körner was born in 1949 in Salzburg, Austria, got his academic degrees from the University of Innsbruck, and became professor of botany at the University of Basel, Switzerland in 1989. He published over 300 scientific articles on plant-environment interactions and authored and coauthored numerous scientific books, including the leading plant science textbook Strasburger.